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| Journey to Dakghar | ||||||||
| 10 January 2012, SRC, 4:30 pm | ||||||||
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(Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s Dakghar and other
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| The Play | ||||||||
| During World War II, Polish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak selected "The Post Office" as the play the orphans in his care in the Warsaw Ghetto would perform. This occurred on 18 July 1942, less than three weeks before they were to be deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. According to his main English-language biographer, Betty Jean Lifton, in her book The King of Children, the underlying reason for this was that since Dr. Korczak thought a great deal about whether one should be able to determine when and how to die, he may have been trying to find a way for the children in his orphanage to accept death. Journey to Dakghar deals with the original play by Tagore, as well as with his journey in writing it. It also includes its production history, with regard to both the poet and major international productions like that by Janusz Korxzac in the Warshaw Ghetto. | ||||||||
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